This is also known as Bondage Tape by people in the scene. Pretty handy stuff, and it doesn't pull out hair or leave sticky residue.

Glitch
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2014-08-25T21:29:28Z —
#3

A tape that sticks only to itself, huh?

Seems useless for the picture-advertised usage of repairing a hose - without adhesive to keep it in place, it will just twist and slide around the hose. That and it won't produce a seal at the point of rupture.

The other usages mentioned in text seem reasonable, though. Just an odd image to include.

crenquis
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2014-08-25T21:44:01Z —
#4

It looks like silicone tape -- it is "tacky", but not "gluey", so it does stay in place... I have used thicker silicone tape to fix a leak on a hose -- just wrap it tight enough and it stays in place.

Medievalist
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2014-08-25T22:09:12Z —
#5

Silicone tape has no adhesive and only sticks to itself, and it's fantastic for hose repair. Works on blazing hot metal pipes, too, as I learnt from experience. Adhesion is not necessary to achieve a seal (counter-intuitive, I know, but empirically true).

Silicone tape is not very reusable, though. After a couple of days it kind of melts together fairly permanently.

This is HUGO'S silicone tape. It's all blue and it's Hugo's and everything. Well worth triple the price.

crenquis
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2014-08-26T02:20:16Z —
#9

Actually 2 inch wide by 50 feet long for $12 is quite reasonable for silicone tape.Getting the equivalent amount of @art_carnage's Harbor Freight tape 1 inch x 10 feet per roll would cost: $40 As @bartitos pointed out different product/application than self-fusing silicone tape. Hugo's looks much thinner and I'm assuming that it doesn't self-fuse -- which means that I doubt that it is very good at repairing leaking hoses.

teapot
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2014-08-26T05:17:55Z —
#10

Came here to say that I've played with some excellent things contained within this tape.

boingboing
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2014-08-30T21:09:27Z —
#11

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